Plone 3.0 Release Candidate available for all platforms

Plone 3.0 Release Candidate available for all platforms

The Plone Team today announced the Release Candidate build of the upcoming Plone 3.0 release for all platforms. Please take a few minutes and read this message to see how you can help make Plone 3.0 even better and make it easier for yourself to upgrade. And add-on product authors: now is the time to start updating your products and verifying that they work on Plone 3.0!

Plone 3.0 is a result of over 9 months of hard work by the Plone Team, and has a lot of exciting new features. There will be a proper presentation of the new features made available when the final release is out, but some notable new features are:

Full versioning, roll-back capabilities, in-place staging (ie. working copy support) and locking for all content.

Inline editing of content using Ajax.

Link integrity checking (stops you from accidentally breaking references between documents) and automatic handling of moved/renamed content — both of which work together to eliminate broken links in your site.

Several new workflows examples/presets included by default:

Simple Web Publishing workflow

Intranet workflow

Community Site workflow

Content rules engine.

Wiki support.

New portlets infrastructure and management UI.

OpenID authentication support.

Much-improved user interface for the sharing page, comprehensive control panel reorganization.

New dedicated Contributor/Reader/Editor roles, as well as a “logged in users” pseudogroup.

An additional new theme “NuPlone”

The full list of Plone 3.0 features is available, and the inimitable Jon Stahl also has an article called 8 Really Cool Things About Plone 3 if you want a more in-depth walk-through of some of those features.